Shrub or tree to 10(-21) m. Twigs glabrous or clothed by a much variable indument, often faintly zigzag. Leaves alternate, glabrous to more or less pilose beneath, acuminate to caudate with acute to cordate base and nearly entire finely glandular dentate or sharply dentate, flat or recurved, margin, (narrowly) ovate to elliptic, 1¾-12 by l-4½ cm; nerves (3—)4—11 pairs, usually meeting in a looped intramarginal vein. Flowers in a raceme or panicle to 4½ cm, the axis clothed with hairs. Bracts and bracteoles hairy, soon caducous. Pedicels 0-5 mm. Calyx glabrous or hairy, 2-3 mm long, symmetrically cleft, the lobes 1-3 mm. Corolla 3-5 mm, often with minute hairs on the outside. Stamens 25-70. Disk 5-stellate, shortly minutely pilose. Ovary (appressedly) hairy, l-1½ mm high; style glabrous, as long as the corolla. Fruit white to bluish-black, (obliquely) ovoid to ellipsoid, 7-12 by (3-)5-6 mm. Seed 1, cylindrical to ellipsoidal or ovoid with straight embryo.
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